My young teen baker and I have had SO much fun exploring and creating with The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book: More Than 375 Delectable Cookie Recipes That Begin with a Box of Cake Mix by Camilla Saulsbury. This is a nice big book full of recipes in three sections: drop cookies, bar cookies, formed…
Category Archives: Non-Fiction
Stasiland, a 5-Star Read
When I was a child in the 70s, I used to sometimes lie awake at night and worry about the Communists. All the stories I’d heard terrified me, and I had nightmares about my parents being shot by them; why exactly was unclear. When the Berlin Wall fell, I was amazed. It seemed to have…
Hurry Less, Worry Less at Christmas
Judy Christie wants to help you Hurry Less, Worry Less at Christmas so that you can have the holiday season you long for. Are you in? Perhaps you are shaking your head at the mere mention of Christmas here the week before Thanksgiving! But that’s the point. This book not only gives you guidance about…
Booky Wook 2: This Time It’s Personal
Salacious. Bawdy. Hilarious. Yes, Russell Brand is known world-wide as a stand-up comedian and an actor, and I’m finding that folks either love him or hate him. Me? I have been brought to laughter many times when watching him on the screen. In my one brush with celebrity, I also blushed like a schoolgirl when…
We Meant Well
Peter Van Buren is a State Department Foreign Service officer who was sent to Iraq for one year as part of the plan to reconstruct the country, to “win the hearts and minds” of the people by helping reinstate such basic necessities as clean water, electricity, garbage pick-up, and other elements of civilization. What he…
Dancing With Mrs. Dalloway
You may already know that A.A. Milne created Winnie-the-Pooh based on his son, the real life Christopher Robin, and his childhood stuffed friends, or that Harper Lee modeled Atticus Finch on her father, a lawyer who defended two black men in court. But did you know that Tom Sawyer’s adventures came straight from Mark Twain’s…
On Reading: Books vs. People (with Giveaway)
I’ve noticed that I’ve become more introverted lately. It takes more effort for me to reach out to others, because I’m very content staying at home — reading or catching up on my DVR. My life is busy, so time alone or with no responsibilities is pretty highly guarded. Imagine how validated I felt when…
Finding Aster: our Ethiopian Adoption Story
Dina McQueen’s account of her adoption of an Ethiopian child, Finding Aster, is in many ways the story of the creation of herself as mother. She recounts her history with relationships, her struggle with endomitriosis, her one pregnancy and her being pressured by the father to have an abortion, and her eventual hysterectomy. Dina, in…
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